Amish Door Restaurant the

This place was amazing, great fried chicken, dressing, chicken gravy, and the noodles..  One gem of down home country cooking.    Beautiful country setting with an amazing view of gods creating while you enjoy some of the best food around.  The Bakery items are just alright..  the real food is just amazing..salad bar has many choices ham salad, various pickled eggs, pickled vegi's, to other salads..

Came here  with my family yesterday. This is their off season and wwe also stayed at their beautiful hotel for a reasonable rate.

My wife ordered the pork . My son had the full buffet.  I ordered the turkey dinner.

All were delicious and our service was friendly and prompt.

We will be back next year when visiting the area.

I was initially disappointed when we sat down because I realized they didn't have the buffet going on Saturday.  I was looking forward to a buffet of homestyle food, so it took me a minute to adjust my expectations.  Once I made peace with the fact that I'd have to order from the menu, things started turning around.  I found a sampler platter that comes with broasted chicken, ham, roast beef, stuffing, mashed potatoes & gravy, and your choice of corn, noodles, or something else I can't think of, AND unlimited trips to the salad bar.  Things were starting to look up, and I happily placed my order.

It turns out the sampler platter is basically a one-plate buffet.  You get a LOT of food, even when you order the "small".  The "large" portion gets you an extra piece of chicken and presumably more of other stuff, but I certainly didn't need any more.  Even if the hot plate wasn't enough, you could find plenty to like on the salad bar.  

Let's take this one-by-one:  The chicken was amazing.  It was moist on the inside and nice and crisp on the outside.  The ham was some of the best I have ever had anywhere.  I'm not a ham guy, but this was good enough to actually order it as my main dish.  The roast beef was very good, although it may have been a little over-cooked.  (It is certainly some of the better roast beef I've had in restaurants, which always tend to overcook roast beef while it sits around waiting for a customer to order it.)  The mashed potatoes and gravy were great.  The stuffing was good, although I have had better, but this is another item that restaurants usually screw up.  The noodles were fine, if a bit boring.  The salad bar was awesome.  It had plenty of great toppings to choose from, as well as pasta salad and macaroni salad (both of which were fantastic).  Just about everything I ate was a winner.  

The sole major disappoint was the bread.  The waiter gave us the choice of a loaf of bread (wheat or white) or rolls for our table.  We opted for the white loaf.  Now, I've heard good things about the bakery, so I was excited for good bread.  After cutting into it, I knew exactly what happened.  It didn't smell fresh, but it was piping hot.  Furthermore, the top inch was all hard.  They had obviously microwaved the loaf (which is a huge no-no if you ask me), and worse yet, they committed the unforgivable sin of microwaving it so long that they made the bread all hard in places.  Not cool.  If crappy chain-restaurants (steakhouses, Italian, etc.) can bring out fresh bread and rolls right from the oven, a place called The Amish Door that is known for its bakery HAD BETTER get it right.  Seriously.  I'm a huge bread fan, so this was a big disappointment.  In the end, I was so stuffed from other items that I didn't really miss it though.

If I find myself back in the area in the future, I'll definitely work The Amish Door into my meal rotation.